The Impossible Challenge
Theme of the Week: Converting to Wind Power
Monday, September 28, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: "I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you" (John 14:18). Bonus Reading: John 14:15-17
Life is difficult." That's the opening sentence of M. Scott Peck's best-selling book, The Road Less Travelled. The opening words of Peck's sequel,Further Along the Road Less Traveled are "Life is complex." Let me take these observations one step further: "Life is impossible." This statement is always true when we view life from the perspective of a man who desires to be the kind of man God wants him to be.
"You are to be perfect," Jesus instructed.
"I can't," the honest man replies.
One night, Jesus met with 12 ordinary men in an upper room in Jerusalem to share the Passover meal. Jesus startled them by assuming the household slave role of washing their feet, and then telling them that they were to serve one another in the same way. He then told them that the guiding rule of their lives was to have a love for one another that equaled his love for them. These ordinary men should have been thinking, "This is impossible!"
This is the dilemma of the spiritual man living in a fallen world. You and I don't have the ability to live the way God intended us to live. That is, not under our own power. We need help. We need a helper.
—Bob Beltz in Becoming a Man of the Spirit
My Response: How could Jesus say "It is best for you that I go away" (John 16:7)?
Adapted from Becoming a Man of the Spirit (NavPress/navpress.com, 1999) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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I'm not strong enough, Lord, to live up to your standards on my own. Teach me how to rely on the internal power your Spirit provides.
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